{"product_id":"this-grand-beyond-the-travels-of-isabella-bird-bishop-9780712603928","title":"This grand beyond: The travels of Isabella Bird Bishop","description":"\u003cp\u003eIsabella Bird Bishop was born in 1831. At the age of forty she rejected the conventional  pious and benevolent life of a clerics daughter and Victorian gentlewoman in favor of the romance of travel  hardship and danger in some of the remotest regions of the world. No place was too distant or too hazardous; on foot  horseback  yak and elephant she visited the frontiersmen of the American West  the Rocky Mountains  the Sandwich Islands  the hairy Ainu of northern Japan  the forbidden cities of Tibet  Persia and Kurdistan  Korea  the Malay Peninsula; she made a perilous journey up the Yangtze River and set out on a last romantic ride in the Atlas Mountains. The Far East had a special attraction and many of the places she saw had only recently been opened to foreigners. Isabella Bird Bishops ability to relate to peoples of all races and cultures was combined with formidable powers of endurance: neither floods nor tigers  corrupt officials or local hostility  extremes of climate  jungle or mountain terrain ever stood in her way. She married Dr John Bishop at fifty but when he died after five happy but travel-free years  she paused only to take a brief nursing course before setting off for Tibet. She published nine books about her travels  all of them bestsellers in their time  and all represented in this anthology. The profits from her writings were plowed into a variety of charitable causes in England and Scotland. Her life and writings  she declared  vindicated the right of a woman to do anything which she can do well. This Grand Beyond shows Isabella at her best. A geographer of repute with excellent descriptive abilities  her writing is at once exact and dramatic  humorous and eloquent  and guaranteed to create an appetite for adventure and faraway places.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651927498805,"sku":"ByrdShop_0712603921","price":108.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780712603928.jpg?v=1781845693","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/this-grand-beyond-the-travels-of-isabella-bird-bishop-9780712603928","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}